Free Training Industry Reports

Now in its 35th year, The Industry Report provides data on budgets, staffing, and programs. Only U.S.-based corporations and educational institutions with 100 or more employees Only U.S.-based corporations and educational institutions with 100 or more employees are included in the analysis. The data represents a cross-section of industries and company sizes.

The State of the Industry report is Association for Talent Development’s (ATD) review of talent development trends. In 2015, A total of 310 organizations representing a diverse range of industries, sizes, and locations participated in the benchmarking study.

The 2016 ATD State of the Industry will be available in early December.

State of Learning and Development 2015 examines how organizations in 40 countries and 33 industries are prioritizing and approaching learning. The data shows 55% of companies have a formal learning and development strategy in place. The prevalence of an L&D strategy grows with the size of the company, however. You will find them at 61% of large companies (more than 10,000 employees), 52% of mid-sized organizations (1,000 – 9,999 employees) and 48% of small companies (Fewer than 1,000 employees).

Conducted in June-July of 2015, other top findings from the research include:

The biggest challenge to developing the L&D strategy is bringing all the stakeholders together, cited by 37% of organizations.

More than one-third of companies say their L&D objectives are either not linked to corporate performance goals at all, or only linked to a small extent.

Employee satisfaction and engagement are the most commonly used metrics to measure learning effectiveness.

A negative report about the state of self-paced learning by Ambient insight that states:

The global eLearning industry is now in the midst of a perfect storm of market conditions that are driving revenues down including weak demand for most self-paced products, commoditization, the late stage of eLearning’s product lifecycle, pronounced product substitution, and the so-called leapfrog effect with buyers in developing countries completely bypassing eLearning for newer products.

Paid Training Industry Reports

Free Overview; Research Report is Paid. The Corporate Learning Facebook 2015 provides current L&D benchmarks and guidance. How much are L&D organizations spending per learner? How are organizations allocating their L&D funds across different program areas? How do metrics for mature L&D organizations differ from their less mature counterparts?

Join E-Learning Symposium Speaker, Dr. Kevin Gumienny for a webinar that discusses what it takes to develop a successful e-learning program.

Elearning can be a great choice—it’s easy to take and easy to track. But it can be tough to get right. Developing effective elearning depends on a constellation of skills, many of which you might have in-house; others for which you may wish to reach out.

In this webinar, Kevin will discuss:

What roles does it take to be successful?

How long does it take? How much will it cost?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with an external design and development team?